''Boyster'' (''Molusco'') is a 2D CGI animated television series that premiered on
Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven yea ...
on June 16, 2014. The titular Boyster character is half human and half
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
, and his name is a
portmanteau
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words
Plot
The series focuses on the adventures of a half-human, half-oyster mutant named "Boyster", who was adopted by a pair of humans and raised alongside his oyster brother Shelby. Naturally, Boyster has to keep his oyster side under wraps, but he will use his many oyster-esque abilities to save the day.
Characters
Main
*Boyster Likowski (voiced by
Akie Kotabe
Akihiro Lawrence Kotabe (born July 18, 1980) is an American actor. His credits include playing Ben Nakamura in ''The Man in the High Castle'', Dead Man in '' Everly'', Meyers in ''The November Man'', Eric in '' The Assets'', Akira Takahashi in ' ...
) is the main protagonist and title character of the series. He is a half-human half-oyster child, has only two hairs and is endowed with superpowers: these include spitting
pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carb ...
s, stretching his limbs to infinity, etc. He is shy and horrified that someone might discover his powers. It is because of an oil spill that he and his brother are mutants, they were found on the beach and then adopted by Lola and Eugene Likowski. He is 11 years old at the beginning of the series but at the end, he is 12 years old. He is a fan of Spido-Dude, a reference to Spider-Man.
*Shelby Likowski (voiced by Matthew Forbes) is Boyster's
clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shel ...
twin brother. He is intelligent and has a very high IQ. He almost never leaves his home and prefers to watch television all day long (which is where he gets all his knowledge from). He is obsessed with the "Prestige and Passion" series and admires the theories of
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended ...
.
*Rafik (voiced by
Rasmus Hardiker
Rasmus Hardiker (born 31 January 1985) is a British actor, best known for voicing Scott and Alan Tracy in the reboot animated television series '' Thunderbirds Are Go''. He played Raymond in Steve Coogan's sitcom ''Saxondale'' and Ben in the Ja ...
) is Boyster's best friend. He's around 11-13 years old, and an over-excited kid. He is one of the only characters in the series to know Boyster's secret. He loves to act, make drama for any situation and often finds things funny even if they aren't really funny. He gets jealous when Boyster spends time with someone else, and he is arrogant and boastful, always thinking he is the best even giving himself the nickname "Rafik the Magnificent". He has light brown skin, brown hair, and wears a brown jacket, a green t-shirt and brown pants.
Supporting
*Eugene Likowski is the adoptive father of Boyster and Shelby. He is a botanist and he is very fond of gardening. He has brown skin and wears an apron with an apple in the middle which could indicate that he likes to cook. He is overprotective of Boyster and wouldn't want anything to happen to him.
*Lola Likowski (voiced by
Jules de Jongh
Jules de Jongh is an American voice actress. She provided the voices of Yugo and Evangelyne in the first 2 seasons of '' Wakfu: The Animated Series'', the voice of the protagonist Faith from the video game '' Mirror's Edge'', and the voice of s ...
) is the adoptive mother of Boyster and Shelby. She is an ingenious person and she loves fixing cars and making objects. She has brown hair in a bun, she wears a pink t-shirt with blue overalls and red shoes.
*Alicia (voiced by Lizzie Waterworth) is Boyster's love interest. She has brown hair in a ponytail, light brown skin, a red bow tie and has bigger eyebrows than the other characters. She wears a red t-shirt with a white heart in the middle, a brown skirt, gray leggings and red shoes. She is very rich and her parents are stingy and obsessed with money and want her to marry a billionaire at all costs. Alicia dreams of becoming an artist and loves drawing portraits of her beloved
cat
The cat (''Felis catus'') is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of ...
, Vanilla. Alicia is a nice girl, with a strong sense of integrity, who can't stand being rejected. She likes Boyster a lot but does not suspect that he has a crush on her and, worse, that he has powers. She is around 11-13 years old.
*Ozzy (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is Boyster's worst enemy and one of his comrades. A vain, idiotic and arrogant person, he loves hitting and putting people down, especially Boyster and Arthur. He seems to be in love with Alicia but obviously she doesn't love him due to his meanness. Ozzy has a lack of self-confidence and would like to be able to impress his two ruthless and muscular sisters by showing them that he can be as strong as them. He's not very brave and has orange hair, big eyebrows, a purple jacket and the majority of the students are shorter than him in height. He is described as being "ugly" by Rafik.
*Arthur (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is a socially inept
nerd
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introverted or lacking social skills. Such a person may spend inordinate amounts of time on unpopular, little known, or non-mainstream activities, which are generally either highly tec ...
with a passion for the extraterrestrial. He has brown hair, small eyebrows, and two teeth protruding from his mouth. He wears round green glasses, a green cap with a triangle and an alien head in the middle, a green t-shirt too big for him with the same symbol as his cap and a brown collar and gray pants with two dark gray vertical stripes. He is very smart and is able to create an alien detector, he has been collecting
toasters
A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat to brown sliced bread into toast.
Types
Pop-up toaster
In pop-up or automatic toasters, a single vertical piece of bread is dropped into a slot on the top of the toaster ...
since he was 5 years old and is a fan of Sherlock Holmes. He doesn't have very good breath, he is in the chess club and was in the detective club. He gets harassed and beaten by Ozzy but, despite this, he remains sympathetic towards Ozzy and would like to be his friend. He has a pet
spider
Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...
named Ursula.
*Marion Pluss (voiced by
Rob Rackstraw
Robert Rackstraw (born 31 October 1965) is a British voice actor who has worked in various animated films, television shows and video games.
Career
Rackstraw has an extensive voiceover career over 20 years. He voiced the main villain Pew in ' ...
) is Boyster and Rafik's math teacher. His goal in life is to be the strictest teacher in the world. He has black hair, and wears a tuxedo and glasses. Mr. Pluss is a cruel and unfair sadist who gets pleasure out of mistreating his students and is usually seen angry or shouting. He has robotic vision and his students call him the "Teachinator".